Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 6312710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Almudena |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolasco-Cirugeda |
| SIGNATURE | NOLASCO-CIRUGEDA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alicante |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3653-1650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shaping socio-functional urban identity
Understanding how urban form and activity interact to shape neighbourhood structure remains a central challenge in urban analysis. While morphological and activity-based approaches have been widely developed, their integration remains methodologically uneven, which can limit their ability to capture the socio-functional organisation of urban space. This paper proposes a reproducible computational workflow that integrates morphometric descriptors …
Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries
This study revisits the debate surrounding the definition of neighborhood boundaries by addressing the disconnect between the city’s Administrative Neighborhoods and its functional organization. A method is proposed for dividing the city into more meaningful units through the spatial distribution of urban activities by retrieving data from Google Places. The dataset was pre-processed and spatially divided into Functional Clusters. A comparison be…
Keeping mass tourism destinations sustainable via urban design
The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass‐tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking urban image. The aim of this paper is to showcase the relevant role of sustainable urban design for the development of an effective coastal to…
Green infrastructure planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content fr…
Social Media data
Analysing the city through data retrieved from Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has received considerable attention as a promising method for applied research. However, the use of these data is not without its challenges and has given rise to a stream of polemical arguments over the validity of this source of information. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities as well as some of the limitations and biases associated with the …
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas
Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following this hypothesis, this paper proposes a methodology to identify successful public spaces – plazas – through the location-based social media network Foursquare and to analyze their urban position using morphological and historical cartographies. The overall methodology comprises three…
Percepción y uso social de una transformación urbana a través del social media. Las setas gigantes de la calle San Francisco
El análisis del espacio público urbano a partir de su dimensión perceptual ha sido, tradicionalmente, un recurso fundamental para reconocer qué características físicas lo diferencian y le confieren actividad y vitalidad. Esta aproximación es particularmente relevante en entornos urbanos transformados. Conocer la percepción social sobre el espacio público permite valorar en qué medida las acciones realizadas modifican las dinámicas urbanas. Bajo e…
Turismo residencial de extranjeros en la Costa Blanca
La costa de la provincia de Alicante, la denominada Costa Blanca, ha experimentado una importante transformación territorial en el periodo 1990 y 2010 debido, fundamentalmente, al crecimiento urbano y la considerable presencia de población noreuropea que se asienta en la zona costera con fines turísticos. En este sentido, con el objetivo de analizar las cualidades de algunos de los escenarios ocupados, se estudia tanto el proceso de ocupación com…
Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas
Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following this hypothesis, this paper proposes a methodology to identify successful public spaces – plazas – through the location-based social media network Foursquare and to analyze their urban position using morphological and historical cartographies. The overall methodology comprises three…
Keeping mass tourism destinations sustainable via urban design
The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass‐tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking urban image. The aim of this paper is to showcase the relevant role of sustainable urban design for the development of an effective coastal to…
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Percepción y uso social de una transformación urbana a través del social media. Las setas gigantes de la calle San Francisco
El análisis del espacio público urbano a partir de su dimensión perceptual ha sido, tradicionalmente, un recurso fundamental para reconocer qué características físicas lo diferencian y le confieren actividad y vitalidad. Esta aproximación es particularmente relevante en entornos urbanos transformados. Conocer la percepción social sobre el espacio público permite valorar en qué medida las acciones realizadas modifican las dinámicas urbanas. Bajo e…
Turismo residencial de extranjeros en la Costa Blanca
La costa de la provincia de Alicante, la denominada Costa Blanca, ha experimentado una importante transformación territorial en el periodo 1990 y 2010 debido, fundamentalmente, al crecimiento urbano y la considerable presencia de población noreuropea que se asienta en la zona costera con fines turísticos. En este sentido, con el objetivo de analizar las cualidades de algunos de los escenarios ocupados, se estudia tanto el proceso de ocupación com…
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas
Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following this hypothesis, this paper proposes a methodology to identify successful public spaces – plazas – through the location-based social media network Foursquare and to analyze their urban position using morphological and historical cartographies. The overall methodology comprises three…
Social Media data
Analysing the city through data retrieved from Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has received considerable attention as a promising method for applied research. However, the use of these data is not without its challenges and has given rise to a stream of polemical arguments over the validity of this source of information. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities as well as some of the limitations and biases associated with the …
Keeping mass tourism destinations sustainable via urban design
The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass‐tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking urban image. The aim of this paper is to showcase the relevant role of sustainable urban design for the development of an effective coastal to…
Green infrastructure planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content fr…
Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries
This study revisits the debate surrounding the definition of neighborhood boundaries by addressing the disconnect between the city’s Administrative Neighborhoods and its functional organization. A method is proposed for dividing the city into more meaningful units through the spatial distribution of urban activities by retrieving data from Google Places. The dataset was pre-processed and spatially divided into Functional Clusters. A comparison be…
Shaping socio-functional urban identity
Understanding how urban form and activity interact to shape neighbourhood structure remains a central challenge in urban analysis. While morphological and activity-based approaches have been widely developed, their integration remains methodologically uneven, which can limit their ability to capture the socio-functional organisation of urban space. This paper proposes a reproducible computational workflow that integrates morphometric descriptors …
Geography (7 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (4 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (3 works)